May 6

May 6 is the 126th day of the Gregorian calendar ( 127th in leap years), thus remaining 239 days of the year.

  • 2.1 Before the 19th century
  • 2.2 19th century
  • 2.3 20th century 2.3.1 1901-1950
  • 2.3.2 1951-2000
  • 3.1 Before the 19th century
  • 3.2 19th century
  • 3.3 20th century
  • 3.4 21st century

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • 2002: The Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, top candidate of the right-wing populist Pim Fortuyn Lijst will be shot in Hilversum from animal -rights activist Volkert van der Graaf. The attack leads to riots in The Hague.
  • 2007: The UMP candidate Nicolas Sarkozy defeated with 53.06 percent of the vote in the runoff in the French presidential election, the Socialist candidate Ségolène Royal.
  • 2012: The Socialist candidate François Hollande wins the runoff election for the French presidential office against incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy (UMP ).

Economy

Science and Technology

  • 2001: Dennis Tito, the first space tourist lands after a nine-day space flight with the Russian Soyuz TM -32 mission back in Kazakhstan on earth.

Culture

Society

Religion

Disasters

Minor accidents are listed in the sub- items of disaster.

Sports

Entries of Athletics world records are located under the respective discipline under Athletics.

Born

Before the 19th century

  • 0973: Henry II, Holy Roman -German Emperor
  • 1397: Sejong, King of the Korean Joseon Dynasty
  • 1501: Marcellus II, Pope
  • 1574: Innocent X, Pope
  • 1580: Carlo I. Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers and Rethel
  • 1635: Johann Joachim Becher, German chemist and physician
  • 1668: Baron Adolph Magnus von Hoym, minister of Saxony and Silesian entrepreneurs
  • 1696: Johann Andreas von Franken- Siersdorf, Vicar General in Cologne
  • 1713: Charles Batteux, French aestheticians
  • 1728: Johann Andreas Stein, German organ and piano maker
  • 1741: Joseph Ignatius Buček, Czech University Professor, Author economic works
  • 1744: Johann Christoph Kunze, German Protestant theologian
  • 1747: George I, Count of Pyrmont and Prince of Waldeck
  • 1756: André Masséna, a French general

19th century

20th century

1901-1950

1951-2000

Died

Before the 19th century

19th century

20th century

21st Century

  • 2002: Murray Adaskin, Canadian composer and conductor
  • 2002: Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician and publicist
  • 2004: Barney Kessel, American jazz guitarist
  • 2004: Philip Kapleau, American Zen monk
  • 2004: Robert Gratzer, Austrian writer, journalist, playwright and publisher
  • 2005: Joe Grant, American comic book writer
  • 2006: Grant McLennan, Australian singer and songwriter
  • 2006: Lillian Asplund, the third- last survivor of the Titanic disaster
  • 2006: Hans Wyprächtiger, Swiss actor
  • 2007: Carey Bell, American blues musician
  • 2007: Ikegami Kaneo, Japanese novelist and screenwriter
  • 2007: Joseph St. Michael's, South Tyrol theologian and church historian
  • 2008: Kuno Bärenbold, German writer
  • 2009: Valentin Varennikov, Soviet- Russian military and politicians
  • 2012: Volker Canaris, German dramatist, theater critic and intendant
  • 2012: Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalyst and author
  • 2013: Giulio Andreotti, Italian politician, several times minister and prime minister, writer and journalist

Holidays and observances

  • Religious observances Friedrich III. (Saxony), German Elector ( Protestant)
  • Name Days Antonia, Gundula

More entries contains the list of commemorative and action days.

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April May 1 May 2 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 7 May 8 May 9 May 10 May 11 May 12 May 13 May 14 May 15 May 16 May 17 May 18 May 19 May 20 May 21 May 22 May 23 May 24 May 25 May 26 May 27 May 28 May 29 May 30 May 31 1104 Levant Haifa Bay 1191 Ultimatum History of Cyprus Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus 1223 Henry I, Count of Schwerin 1250 1525 Black Company Florian Geyer Marienberg Fortress 1527 Sack of Rome (1527) Renaissance Pope Clement VII Passetto di Borgo Castel Sant'Angelo 1576 Henry IV of France Henry III of France 1622 Battle of Wimpfen Catholic League (German) Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Baden-Durlach 1682 Versailles (city) 1686 Eternal Peace Treaty of 1686 Rzeczpospolita History of Russia 1757 Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine 1860 Expedition of the Thousand Giuseppe Garibaldi Genoa History of Italy Quarto dei Mille 1861 Arkansas 1863 Army of the Potomac Battle of Chancellorsville Robert E. Lee Army of Northern Virginia 1864 Battle of the Wilderness 1876 1882 Chief Secretary for Ireland Lord Frederick Cavendish Phoenix Park Phoenix Park Murders Chinese Exclusion Act Burlingame Treaty 1893 Reichstag (German Empire) June 15 1910 1919 Third Anglo-Afghan War 1929 Carl Severing 1932 1935 Great Depression in the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt Executive Order Works Progress Administration 1942 Corregidor Island History of the Philippines Philippines Campaign (1941–42) 1945 Prague Offensive History of Prague Wrocław Kurt Schumacher Allied-occupied Germany#British Zone of Occupation 1954 History of Paraguay Federico Chávez Alfredo Stroessner 1963 Council of Europe 1974 1979 Bruno Kreisky 1990 East German general election, 1990 1997 History of Israel Erez 1998 History of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev France Jacques Chirac Jean-Pierre Raffarin Marc Ravalomanana Didier Ratsiraka Madagascar Pim Fortuyn List Two-round system 1678 1835 New York Herald 1840 Postage stamp Penny Black 1851 John Gorrie 1859 1889 Champ de Mars Seine 1911 Dresden October 31 1946 Camille Gutt 1996 Hyundai Motor India Limited Gordon Brown Bank of England 2010 2010 Flash Crash 1754 Dorothea Erxleben 1869 West Lafayette (Indiana) Purdue University 1953 John Heysham Gibbon 1971 Ottobrunn 1993 Hans Schlegel 1994 Elizabeth II Soyuz TM-32 1719 Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 1727 Faustina Bordoni 1854 1857 Ferenc Erkel Karl Doppler 1991 Bayerischer Rundfunk 1848 1849 1960 Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon 1966 Moors murders Paula Jones Bill Clinton 1312 Council of Vienne Apostolic constitution Corpus Juris Canonici 1542 1934 1842 Hamburg Rathaus 1902 SS Camorta Cyclone 1930 1937 Airship Lakehurst, New Jersey 1976 1976 Friuli earthquake Friuli Roger Bannister Charles Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat John Christopher Kunze George I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont 1758 1759 1763 1769 Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette 1781 1785 Arvid August Afzelius 1786 1792 Martin Ohm 1796 1798 1800 1801 1802 Wilhelm Schirmer 1804 1810 Friedrich August Eckstein 1813 1814 1815 1821 1823 Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl 1824 Tokugawa Iesada 1830 Abraham Jacobi 1832 1836 1839 Friedrich Specht 1844 Wyatt Eaton 1853 Philander C. Knox 1856 Robert Peary Frank Bramley Motilal Nehru Eugenio Tosi 1866 1868 Gaston Leroux 1871 Christian Morgenstern 1872 1875 1878 Harry Farjeon 1879 1880 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Guy Kibbee 1884 1885 1886 1887 Michael Browne (cardinal) Stanley Morison 1890 1895 1896 1897 1898 Konrad Henlein Lothar Beutel 1903 Hermann Grab 1904 Cliff Carlisle 1905 1906 1907 Weeb Ewbank 1908 Jan Kreczmar 1909 Johnny Vaught 1912 1913 Carmen Cavallaro 1915 1916 1917 1921 Erich Fried 1922 1923 Galyani Vadhana 1925 1927 1931 Willie Mays Fernand Franck Rubin Carter 1938 1939 1940 1941 Ariel Dorfman 1943 Andreas Baader Siegfried Schenke Wolfgang Reinhardt 1944 Carl I. Hagen Bob Seger Jimmie Dale Gilmore Felix von Manteuffel 1947 Alan Dale 1948 Caspar Einem Servílio de Oliveira 1949 Jeffery Deaver Gerhard Gruber (musician) 1952 Christian Clavier Gregg Henry Herbert Rusche Graeme Souness Klaus-Dieter Fritsche 1955 John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness 1956 Barbara Krug Roland Wieser 1957 1958 Tommy Byrne (racing driver) 1959 Lyudmila Andonova Anne Parillaud 1961 George Clooney 1962 Mario Kummer Alessandra Ferri 1964 Andrea Chiesa Franziska Pigulla 1965 Leslie Hope Nathalie Stutzmann 1967 Robert Floyd (actor) 1968 1970 Chris Shiflett 1972 Martin Brodeur Naoko Takahashi 1973 1977 Daniela Rath 1978 Gerd Kanter 1980 Ricardo Oliveira 1981 Guglielmo Stendardo 1982 1983 Daniel Alves Trinley Thaye Dorje Lisa Lavie Adrianne Palicki Alexander Thamm 1984 Chiara Costazza 1985 1988 Ryan Anderson (basketball) Naomi Scott 1140 Geoffrey Rufus 1190 1475 Dieric Bouts 1568 Bernardo Salviati 1577 1579 1588 1638 Cornelius Jansen 1673 1675 1690 1701 1708 1724 Georg Christian Adler Anders Celsius 1768 1782 Ernst Theodor Echtermeyer 1855 Alexander von Humboldt 1862 1867 1873 1877 Johan Ludvig Runeberg Friedrich Bayer 1892 Ernest Guiraud 1894 Princess Amalie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 1899 Albrecht Dieterich 1918 1924 1933 Camillo Berneri Guido Leoni Maria Montessori Fergus Anderson Ted Weems Giulio Bevilacqua 1969 Don Drummond Helene Weigel Ernest MacMillan 1975 Milton Ager Lotte Jacobi Irmtraud Morgner 1992 Ann Todd Chatichai Choonhavan Erich Mende 1999 Kaii Higashiyama Jost Gross Frederick III, Elector of Saxony Antonia (name)
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